Supersolidity loses its luster Bizarre quantum state may not exist after all
By Alexandra Witze October 12, 2012 One of the most exciting physics discoveries in recent years may not be a discovery after all. Reports of “supersolidity,” in which solid helium flows through itself without friction, may turn out be something far more ordinary: the everyday stiffening of a material... http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345721/description/Supersolidity_loses_its_luster